Moderna Wants You To Pay Its Legal Bills

Every day, Americans access drugs, medical devices, and other health products sold by private companies but subsidized by the US government through its various agencies, from Medicare to the Veterans Administration. The firms are handsomely rewarded for the trouble, winning guaranteed-purchase contracts and, sometimes, grants to research their products in the first place.

But for one company, scoring on both ends of the process in this way hasn’t been enough. Not only did it benefit from massive government grants, and not only did it realize super-profits on a product many of us were required to take, the company now wants taxpayers to foot the bill for the alleged patent infringement involved in the making of that product. The company’s name is Moderna, and the product in question is the Spikevax Covid vaccine.

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